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By Doloresz Katanich with AP Published on 14/10/2026 – 15:07 GMT+2•Updated 15:13 US inflation accelerated last month as petrol, clothing and airfares became more expensive, adding pressure on households just a few weeks before the midterm elections. The consumer price index rose 3.7% in September compared with a year earlier, the US Department of Labor said on Wednesday, up from 3.4% in August. On a monthly basis, prices jumped 0.6%, up from 0.4% the previous month. The annual figure was above the 3.6% forecast by economists surveyed by data provider FactSet. The figures underscore the lingering impact of the Iran war on petrol…
Der bevorstehende Kampf Für Šefčovič besteht die Herausforderung nun darin, einen begrenzten Durchbruch bei den Autos in eine umfassendere Neuausrichtung des Handels mit China umzumünzen – und Europa gleichzeitig Zeit zu verschaffen, seine Abwehrmaßnahmen zu stärken, falls die Verhandlungen scheitern sollten. „Es spricht einiges dafür, China das anzutun, was China Europa jahrelang angetan hat – Peking in Dialogen und Verfahren zu verzetteln, während Europa seine Instrumente bereitstellt. Aber die EU muss die Zeit, die diese Gespräche bieten, voll ausschöpfen“, sagte Barkin von Rhodium. Der Handelskommissar wird voraussichtlich im Januar ein Videogespräch mit Wang führen, bevor sich die beiden im kommenden…
The list of candidates for the 2027 French presidential election continues to grow. Speaking on France Inter radio on Wednesday, Natacha Polony, a 51-year-old journalist and essayist, announced that she would run for president, saying she wanted to “shake up the political landscape.” ‘The situation leaves me no choice’ Former editor-in-chief of Marianne magazine, Polony denounced what she describes as France’s “complete loss of standing”. She advocates economic, energy and food sovereignty and calls for a reindustrialisation policy to “revive economic activity” and “bring money into the state’s coffers.” In a video posted on her social media accounts shortly after…
By Euronews Persian Published on 14/10/2026 – 11:40 GMT+2 Iran executed a political prisoner in Kerman on Wednesday on charges of carrying out armed attacks during what the Iranian judiciary described as joint American-Israeli military operations on Iranian soil. The Mizan news agency, the official outlet of Iran’s judiciary, identified Ali-Sina Mostafavi, 38, as one of “the armed agents of the American-Zionist enemy” and accused him of opening fire on civilians in Azadi Square in Kerman on 24 March, wounding one person and a young girl. According to Mizan, he also fired on conscript soldiers and passing vehicles on 21 April,…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 14:06 GMT+2 The Portuguese government announced, after Wednesday’s Council of Ministers meeting, that German airline Lufthansa will be the new shareholder in TAP, as part of the reprivatisation of the Portuguese carrier. At the end of September, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa submitted their final bids to acquire 44.9% of the Portuguese airline’s share capital, according to Parpública, the state shareholdings management company, at the time. The process also reserves 5% of the company’s share capital for purchase by employees**.** However, under the decree-law on TAP’s privatisation, published in August and quoted here by Lusa, (source in…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 11:57 GMT+2 A new night train in Germany linking Hamburg and Munich is set to launch on 23 March 2027. Berlin-based Nox Mobility says its first service will run three times a week in each direction, with stops in Bremen and Augsburg. With a new generation of night trains designed to make overnight rail “the most obvious alternative” to short-haul flights, Nox Mobility previously revealed that it plans connections between 100 European cities by 2035. Its proposed network includes Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Budapest and Rome. What will the new night train offer? Passengers will…
Published on 14/10/2026 – 12:51 GMT+2 Russell Brand behaved as a “ruthless” sexual predator when he assaulted six women over the course of a decade, a prosecutor said on Wednesday as she opened the rape and sexual assault case against the actor-comedian. Brand, 51, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. The charges involve six women and alleged offences between 1999 and 2009. Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones told jurors at Southwark Crown Court in London that the six women, who do not know each other, were assaulted in…
By Aleksandra Yagodkina Published on 14/10/2026 – 12:55 GMT+2 Authorities in Russia’s Sakhalin region have detained Yuki Imai, a correspondent for the Japanese newspaper “Hokkaido Shimbun”, on charges of engaging in intelligence activities. The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia reported the arrest on Tuesday. “As a result of operational search measures, it was established that he collected and stored information related to the country’s defence capability, with the aim of passing it on, on the instructions of the national intelligence service, for use against the security of the Russian Federation,” the agency said in a statement. The FSB’s public relations…
Being able to respond quickly to cyberattacks is most crucial in “high-risk scenarios,” the EU executive’s internal cyber defenders warned, saying that the ability to detect an attack is “not sufficient if containment measures cannot be taken quickly enough.” Officials at the in-house IT department, DG DIGIT, are planning to use automated “protective measures” in specific high-risk scenarios, it said. Those scenarios were redacted in the document, which was provided to POLITICO in response to a freedom of information request. The plan does not amount to “uncontrolled automation” and there will be strict controls in place including human oversight, according…
A former Ukrainian military officer is set to become the first person to stand trial over the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline bombings when proceedings begin in a German court on Wednesday. In September that year, seven months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a series of blasts under the Baltic Sea damaged three of the four Nord Stream pipelines designed to carry Russian gas to Europe. While some in the West were quick to accuse Russia of sabotaging its own export route, German investigators identified a cell of Ukrainians they say were the alleged perpetrators. Investigators allege Sergiy Kuznietsov, a…